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Projects-with-Social-Impact

List of projects with social impact.

Citizenship

Consul - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

Consul is an open source project for citizen engagement which allows the citizens to vote, propose certain ideas or debate them. One example of the plataform is the site “Decide Madrid” (https://decide.madrid.es/) created for the city of Madrid which is being used for the purpose described before.

https://github.com/consul/consul

OpenAQ - Open platform for air quality data

OpenAQ is an open source project (the first of its kind) which provides air quality data for different places all around the globe. Its objective is to empower different comunities to fight air pollution. It has been used in places like Delhi, Sarajevo, etc.

https://github.com/openaq
https://github.com/openaq/openaq-info

polygons

A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. Feel free to use it anywhere you want to, make any video, text adaptation or modify it.

https://github.com/ncase/polygons
http://ncase.me/polygons

Social Stream

Social Stream is a framework for building social network websites, it also provides different components to customize the different social networks out there.

https://github.com/ging/social_stream
http://social-stream.dit.upm.es/
Example of social network created using this framework: http://www.vishub.org/

REFUGE restrooms

Refuge restrooms provides safe restroom spaces to transgender and queer people, it points out safe or gender neutral restrooms around a specified area.

https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms
http://www.refugerestrooms.org/

Sheltr

Is an application used to locate the nearest local homeless shelters. It has an MIT license so it is possible to use it as much as you want.

https://github.com/sheltr/sheltr

OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager

This application is designed and built for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team collaborative emergency/disaster mapping, the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 divides an area into individual squares that can be rapidly mapped by thousands of volunteers.

https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2

tasks.hotosm.org

Ampify

Ampify is an open source, decentralised, social platform. It is intended as a successor to the Open Web and as a replacement for closed platforms like iOS and Facebook by providing a web application framework to create social apps on top of a secure, decentralised core.

https://github.com/tav/ampify

HumHub - Social Network Kit

HumHub is a flexible open source social network kit written in PHP for creating social intranets, enterprise social networks, private social networks, etc.

https://www.humhub.org/en

https://github.com/humhub/humhub

Hospitium

Hospitium is an Animal Management Software for Rescue. Developed to fit the needs of the rescue.

https://hospitium.co/

https://github.com/ninetwentyfour/Hospitium

SavePets

Three Montgomery Upper Middle School students are working on an app for SAVE (an animal shelter) to provide the following capabilities:

-Allow potential adopters to view pet inventory and contact SAVE if interested

-Allow people to see what donations SAVE needs

-Allow potential volunteers to sign-up

https://github.com/codeforprinceton/savePets

StrayMapper

A web tool to help reunite more stray animals with their human companion

https://github.com/codeforamerica/straymapper

https://github.com/codeforamerica/straymapper

Africa WaterMap

This project is an interactive map of Africa’s access to water and sanitation

https://github.com/aptivate/africawatermap

HomelessPartners

Platform for pledging gifts to homeless people and another volunteer activities.

https://github.com/stringbeans/homelesspartners

HomeLess

HomeLess is a medium project, created with the idea of helping the needy from Uruguay

https://github.com/homelessuy/HomeLess

HomeFul

Crowfunding project to give money to homeless people

https://github.com/codeforboston/homeful

Impact

A social network for users to contribute to society and donate to charities.

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=social+impact

Awesome tech for good

A selection of projects, organisations and useful tools for social-impact tech

https://github.com/TechforgoodCAST/awesome-techforgood

Spread

Social impact platform to denounce discriminatory situations. Social inequality occurs when a group limit, reproach, discriminate and / or affect the status of another group, class or social circle, decreasing their access to their fundamental freedoms, depriving them of their rights assured as humans. Software, acting as a game-changer in our society, have great potential to produce a positive social impact and can even reduce inequality through social justice, considering its ubiquity in the modern world. This work, aims to bring relevant social change to communities through technology.

https://github.com/johanngomes/spread